After Gilgamesh fails the test, the Epic presents two strangely parallel scenes. In the first, Utnapishtim give Urshanabi the charge to "take him to the washing place" (1. 115). There Urshanabi helps Gilgamesh clean himself up, literally sloughing-off "his skins, which the sea carried away, and showed [again] the beauty of his body" (1. 115). Despite Gilgamesh's apparent failure, the king of Uruk is once again transformed, and this physical metamorphosis hints toward his awareness of.....
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